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There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

They're not mating are they?

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

This could only happen in a technical college.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me.

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

You bloody silly fool!

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

You managed not to get eaten then?

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old.

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

Beauty in a woman is a treasure rare Which we are never weary of admiring; But a sweet temper is a gift more fair And better worth the youthful maid's desiring. That was the boon bestowed on Cinderella By her wise godmother - her truest glory. The rest was "nought but leather and prunella." Such is the moral of this little story - Beauties that charm become you more than dress, And win a heart with far greater facility. In short, in all things to ensure success, The real Fairy Gift is amiability! Talent, courage, wit, and worth Are rare gifts to own on Earth; But if you want to thrive at court - So, at least, the wise report - You will find you need some others, Such as godfathers or mothers.

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. “It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown back, throat to the stars, ‘more like deer than human being.’ To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.

Come out, Neville.